OVERVIEW: The Robert Sterling Clark Foundation’s grantmaking centers on leadership development as a strategy for advancing racial, social and economic equity. Its primary grantmaking focuses on New York City, while a smaller national funding stream … [Read more...] about Robert Sterling Clark Foundation
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CHDI Foundation
OVERVIEW: The CHDI Foundation is a biomedical research funder and science-management organization focused exclusively on Huntington’s disease. It supports academic research, manages research through contract organizations, partners with biotechnology … [Read more...] about CHDI Foundation
Climate Breakthrough
OVERVIEW: Climate Breakthrough operates the Climate Breakthrough Award, which provides $4 million in multiyear, flexible funding and additional support to individual leaders and, occasionally, small teams developing ambitious new initiatives to … [Read more...] about Climate Breakthrough
Cognizant Foundation
OVERVIEW: Cognizant’s philanthropy primarily supports workforce development, technology education and digital and AI skills, with additional giving for community resilience and disaster relief. The company’s former U.S. foundation dissolved in 2022; … [Read more...] about Cognizant Foundation
Creative West
OVERVIEW: Creative West supports artists, culture-bearers, arts organizations and arts-sector infrastructure across 13 western states and three Pacific jurisdictions. Its funding spans performing arts touring, folk and traditional arts, individual … [Read more...] about Creative West
Wallace H. Coulter Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Wallace H. Coulter Foundation supports biomedical engineering, selected academic institutions and professional societies, and civic and community infrastructure serving Asian American/Pacific Islander and American Indian/Alaska Native … [Read more...] about Wallace H. Coulter Foundation
Amon G. Carter Foundation
OVERVIEW: This funder makes grants to promote and strengthen Tarrant County, Texas, which includes Fort Worth. IP TAKE: This approachable funder prioritizes grantmaking in Tarrant County, Texas almost exclusively; however, it does support a few … [Read more...] about Amon G. Carter Foundation
Cabot Corporation Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Cabot Corporation Foundation supports communities where Cabot Corporation, a global specialty chemicals and performance materials company, operates. The foundation prioritizes science and technology education, while also supporting … [Read more...] about Cabot Corporation Foundation
Covista Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Covista Foundation supports healthcare education and workforce development. IP TAKE: The Covista Foundation is in the middle of a significant strategic reset, and grantseekers should pay more attention to where it is going than where … [Read more...] about Covista Foundation
Center for Disaster Philanthropy
OVERVIEW: The Center for Disaster Philanthropy supports disaster preparedness, response, recovery and resilience in the U.S. and around the world. Its grantmaking focuses particularly on medium- and long-term recovery, humanitarian crises and … [Read more...] about Center for Disaster Philanthropy
Annie E. Casey Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Annie E. Casey Foundation is a major national funder of work benefiting children, youth, young adults and families. Its grantmaking spans child welfare, juvenile justice, economic opportunity, community development, research and … [Read more...] about Annie E. Casey Foundation
Andrew Carnegie Foundation
OVERVIEW: Formerly the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Andrew Carnegie Foundation supports education and economic mobility, democracy and civic participation, immigration, libraries, international peace and security, nuclear risk reduction and … [Read more...] about Andrew Carnegie Foundation
Cathay Bank Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Cathay Bank Foundation supports Community & Economic Development, Education, and Health & Welfare in portions of the nine states where Cathay Bank operates. Its grantmaking emphasizes organizations serving low- and … [Read more...] about Cathay Bank Foundation
Susan Crown Exchange
OVERVIEW: The Susan Crown Exchange supports youth sports, social and emotional learning initiatives, and helping young people develop healthy relationships with technology. IP TAKE: SCE is focused on one goal—"preparing youth to thrive in a … [Read more...] about Susan Crown Exchange
Jim Collins Foundation / Point of Pride
OVERVIEW: The Jim Collins Foundation no longer operates independently. The nonprofit, which provided financial assistance to transgender people seeking gender-affirming surgery, merged into Point of Pride in January 2025 and ceased operations that … [Read more...] about Jim Collins Foundation / Point of Pride
The Carter Center
OVERVIEW: The Carter Center is a nonpartisan, nongovernmental organization with a global purview. Its work centers on peace, democracy and human rights, disease elimination, mental health and caregiving. IP TAKE: While the Carter Center makes … [Read more...] about The Carter Center
Cisco Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Cisco Foundation, the charitable foundation affiliated with Cisco Systems, supports technology-enabled approaches to education, economic empowerment, climate resilience and crisis response. IP TAKE: Cisco is a relatively approachable … [Read more...] about Cisco Foundation
Comerica Charitable Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Comerica Charitable Foundation has supported education, economic and community development, and human services, with an emphasis on low- and moderate-income people and communities in Comerica’s banking markets. IP TAKE: Comerica Bank … [Read more...] about Comerica Charitable Foundation
Caldera Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Caldera Foundation provides seed and catalytic funding for efforts addressing climate change, clean energy, natural resources, democracy and civic engagement, nuclear security and selected global challenges. Recent grantmaking has … [Read more...] about Caldera Foundation
Captain Planet Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Captain Planet Foundation supports environmental education, youth leadership and young people’s efforts to solve climate and conservation problems. Its funding is primarily available through the foundation’s own school- and … [Read more...] about Captain Planet Foundation
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation supports academically talented students with financial need through national scholarships and a smaller portfolio of institutional grants. Grantmaking centers on advanced academic opportunities, college access … [Read more...] about Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
Claws Foundation
OVERVIEW: The CLAWS Foundation is a private foundation based in Reston, Virginia. Its grantmaking centers on healthcare, medical research and innovation, social services, humanitarian relief, and the fine and performing arts. Within these broad … [Read more...] about Claws Foundation
Chatlos Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Chatlos Foundation is a Christian family foundation that supports religious organizations, theological education, higher education, medical services and direct human services. IP TAKE: The Chatlos Foundation is more accessible than … [Read more...] about Chatlos Foundation
Fondation CHANEL
OVERVIEW: Fondation CHANEL is a major international funder working to advance the rights, autonomy and opportunities of women and girls. IP TAKE: Fondation CHANEL is a large and increasingly influential global funder with a focused mission but a … [Read more...] about Fondation CHANEL
Capital One Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Capital One Foundation supports economic opportunity and financial well-being, with current interests spanning financial resilience, wealth building, small businesses, affordable housing, community development, workforce preparation and … [Read more...] about Capital One Foundation
Call of Duty Endowment (CODE)
OVERVIEW: The Call of Duty Endowment supports veterans and workforce development in the U.S. and internationally in the United Kingdom. IP TAKE: The Call of Duty Endowment is focused on one goal: helping unemployed and transitioning veterans … [Read more...] about Call of Duty Endowment (CODE)
Mark Cuban Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Dallas-based Mark Cuban Foundation has two distinct sides. Its public-facing work centers on free artificial intelligence education for high school students and teachers. Its tax filings, however, reveal a broader and less clearly … [Read more...] about Mark Cuban Foundation
Clif Family Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Clif Family Foundation (formerly the Clif Bar Family Foundation) is a California-based funder that prioritizes sustainable agriculture, food systems, the environment and related human health. IP TAKE: Clif Family Foundation is an … [Read more...] about Clif Family Foundation
Cargill Inc. & Cargill Foundation
OVERVIEW: Cargill supports sustainable agriculture, food security, water access, childhood nutrition, education and community development in places where the company operates. Its giving flows through several distinct channels, including corporate … [Read more...] about Cargill Inc. & Cargill Foundation
Clara Lionel Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Clara Lionel Foundation is a grantmaking public charity founded by Rihanna in 2012 and named for her grandparents, Clara and Lionel Braithwaite. The foundation supports community-led work at the intersection of climate resilience, … [Read more...] about Clara Lionel Foundation
